Elizabeth Mayes chronicles noteworthy exhibitions and events
New Architecture: The Architectural Year Reviewed
Peter Murray assesses the RIAI and AAI Awards
A Garden of Bright Images: Art Treasures at Glasnevin
E Charles Nelson makes a selection of his favourite botanical watercolours
Roman Opulence in a Dublin Church: The High Altar of St Francis Xavier’s
Maureen Ryan traces the antique provenance of an exceptional architectural ensemble
Raphael’s ‘Transfiguration’: Some Irish Grand Tour Associations
Nicola Figgis attributes a copy of a famous Raphael to the little-known artist, James Durno
‘An Architect’s Melancholy’: Furniture by W H Playfair for an Irish House
Ian Gow has discovered designs by the distinguished Scottish architect for the dining-room at Drumbanagher
John Campbell (1883-1962): An Artist of the Irish Revival
Paul Larmour describes the career of a Belfast illustrator and designer
‘The Wonder of its Day’: Irish Bedcovers of the Eighteenth Century
Elizabeth McCrum describes some unusual textiles in the collection of The Ulster Museum
Recollections of Roderic O’Conor: An Interview with his Grandniece
Paul Spellman talks to Sister Theophane about her famous great-uncle
‘A Melody of Curves Across the Page’: Art and
Calligraphy in the Book of Armagh
Bernard Meehan introduces an Irish manuscript of the ninth century, now
in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin
‘No Small Thing’: Thomas Ivory’s Bridge
at Lismore
Jane Meredith follows an exciting trail of architectural discovery
‘Silver for a Countess’s Levee’: The Kildare
Toilet Set
Elise Taylor describes the magnificent eighteenth-century silver-gilt service
recently acquired by The Ulster Museum
Painters and Illustrators: Aloysius O’Kelly and Vincent
Van Gogh
Niamh O’Sullivan discovers that van Gogh was an admirer of Aloysius
O’Kelly’s scenes in the West of Ireland
Oakpark, Tralee: An Irish Jewel of the Gothic Revival
Michael McCarthy traces the influence of Ruskin and Pugin on a nineteenth-century
house by William Atkins of Cork
Practical Patriots and True Irishmen: The Royal Irish Art
Union 1839-59
Eileen Black recalls the success of the first art union in Ireland
Rediscovered
Embroideries by Lily Yeats
Gifford Lewis has found some rare examples of Yeats needlework
Rita Duffy – Mid-term Report
Denise Ferran assesses the art of a Belfast painter whose work is a response
to her troubled homeland
Rhythm, Repetition and Reproduction: Re-experiencing the
Art of James Coleman
Paula Murphy writes about an internationally renowned Irish conceptual artist
‘The Temples of the New Entertainment’: The
Architecture of the Irish Picture House
Eve McAulay discusses the specific criteria which governed cinema design
Profile: Patricia Quinn
Ann Cremin talks to the new Director of the Arts Council
Book Reviews
The latest books on Irish art and culture
Auction Records
A table of newly-established record prices for Irish painters